Agricultural opportunities to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions

JMF Johnson, AJ Franzluebbers, SL Weyers… - Environmental …, 2007 - Elsevier
Agriculture is a source for three primary greenhouse gases (GHGs): CO2, CH4, and N2O. It
can also be a sink for CO2 through C sequestration into biomass products and soil organic …

The importance of grasslands for animal production and other functions: a review on management and methodological progress in the tropics

M Boval, RM Dixon - Animal, 2012 - cambridge.org
The global importance of grasslands is indicated by their extent; they comprise some 26% of
total land area and 80% of agriculturally productive land. The majority of grasslands are …

Mitigating the greenhouse gas balance of ruminant production systems through carbon sequestration in grasslands

JF Soussana, T Tallec, V Blanfort - Animal, 2010 - cambridge.org
Soil carbon sequestration (enhanced sinks) is the mechanism responsible for most of the
greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation potential in the agriculture sector. Carbon sequestration in …

[HTML][HTML] Costs and benefits of climate-smart agriculture: The case of the Dry Corridor in Guatemala

G Sain, AM Loboguerrero, C Corner-Dolloff… - Agricultural …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Central American countries, particularly Guatemala, are experiencing extreme
climate events which are disproportionately affecting agriculture and subsequently rural …

Management effects on net ecosystem carbon and GHG budgets at European crop sites

E Ceschia, P Béziat, JF Dejoux, M Aubinet… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2010 - Elsevier
The greenhouse gas budgets of 15 European crop sites covering a large climatic gradient
and corresponding to 41 site-years were estimated. The sites included a wide range of …

Long-term effects of crop rotation, manure and mineral fertilisation on carbon sequestration and soil fertility

L Triberti, A Nastri, G Baldoni - European Journal of Agronomy, 2016 - Elsevier
Carbon sequestration, recently advocated to mitigate climate change, needs a thorough
knowledge of the dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC), whose study requires long-term …

Is grass biomethane a sustainable transport biofuel?

NE Korres, A Singh, AS Nizami… - … : Innovation for a …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Grassland is a beneficial landscape for numerous reasons including potential to sequester
carbon in the soil. Cross compliance dictates that grassland should not be converted to …

Rewetting of cutaway peatlands: are we re‐creating hot spots of methane emissions?

D Wilson, J Alm, J Laine, KA Byrne… - Restoration …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Hot spots of CH4 emissions are a typical feature of pristine peatlands at the microsite and
landscape scale. To determine whether rewetting and lake construction in a cutaway …

[HTML][HTML] Full Inversion Tillage (FIT) during pasture renewal as a potential management strategy for enhanced carbon sequestration and storage in Irish grassland soils

AP Madigan, J Zimmermann, DJ Krol… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
It has been suggested that the sequestration of CO 2 by agricultural soils offers a means to
reduce atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations and in turn mitigate the impacts …

The nitrogen, carbon and greenhouse gas budget of a grazed, cut and fertilised temperate grassland

SK Jones, C Helfter, M Anderson, M Coyle… - …, 2017 - bg.copernicus.org
Intensively managed grazed grasslands in temperate climates are globally important
environments for the exchange of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) carbon dioxide (CO 2) …